Hi Chris, Sounds like a good project! You might also be interested in knowing about a WWI Centenary project that Europeana is doing - http://www.europeana1914-1918.eu/en (That's not the final site BTW) I believe they're trying to collate similar records from cultural institutions across Europe to be able to tell the story of the same events from all sides' own records. Perhaps that's a potential tie-in with the UK project. Just keep it in mind :-)
Best, -Liam wittylama.com/blog Peace, love & metadata On 27 October 2011 17:51, Chris Keating <[email protected]> wrote: > (apologies for cross-posting, but it's a UK topic, a MILHIST topic, GLAM > topic and an education topic all rolled into one) > > You might be interested to know that Wikimedia UK has lent its support to a > bid led by a researcher at University of Birmingham, supported by Oxford > University and also the Imperial War Museum, for a project funded by JISC to > categorise and prioritise the UK's cultural heritage related to World War > I.(1) > > This isn't a partnership per se though it may well lead to one. The only > commitment we have made is to write a letter and go to a meeting, and the > outcomes will be very long-term. However I think it's significant because > 1) It is good recognition that the Wikimedia movement is a stakeholder in > the development of heritage and educational resources. (The phone call when > someone from Oxford was saying "we really think your support would add > weight to what we're doing" was, erm, interesting) > 2) It gives us as an organisation formal access to a strong network of > world-leading institutions focusing on this particular task > 3) It's also relatively unusual for a Wikimedia organisation to provide > support to someone else to apply for third-party funding in a competitive > tendering process, but in this case the Wikimedia UK board thought it was > quite justified in pursuit of our objectives. > > This should help us build up our network of institutional partners, > particularly (but not exclusively) aimed at the World War I centenary, and > help lay the groundwork for some exciting collaboration work in the future. > > Any questions, or if you'd like to express your interest in being involved > in future work on the World War I centenary, please give me a shout. > > Chris > > (1)JISC's Invitation to Tender: > http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2011/09/JISC%20ITT%20World%20War%20One%20Commemoration.aspx > Wikimedia UK's letter of support (and a bit of a manifesto): > http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Birmingham_JISC_support.pdf > The people whose bid we are supporting (though nothing specific about it > here): http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/warstudies/index.aspx > > > _______________________________________________ > cultural-partners mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wikimedia.ch/listinfo/cultural-partners >
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